Conor Oberst Quotes

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

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• The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Travel
  • Economy
  • Tourism

• When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • People
  • May
  • Reality

• Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Free
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • World
  • Live
  • Die

• Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Weapons

• It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Lost
  • Human
  • Statistics

• I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Changing
  • Faults
  • Them

• I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Think
  • Religious
  • Religion

• I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Quality
  • Like
  • Genre

• In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Society
  • Celebrity
  • Everyone

• I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Like
  • Hands
  • Imagine

• When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Freedom
  • Destroying
  • Creeds

• I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Star

• If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Two

• 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.

  

  B. B. King
  • Great
  • She
  • Song

• People who do not recognize their Owner and discover their Master are miserable and bewildered. But those who do, and then take refuge in His Mercy and rely on His Power, see this desolate world transformed into a place of rest and felicity, a place of exchange for the Hereafter.

  

  Said Nursi
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Future
  • Cannot
  • Uncertainty

• I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to be.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Great
  • Nervous
  • My Favorite

• Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • People
  • Good
  • Economy

• The first job I ever did in the theatre, I was supposed to be a genius piano player. I couldn't play the piano, but you just sit there at a piano like you're playing, and suddenly all this amazing music comes out and the audience believes you can do it. It's the same with computers. I love scenes where there are people yanking at monitors, "yes I'll put you through now," and you know they're just doing that. But you can look brilliant at all this technology. I love it.

  

  Michael Sheen
  • People
  • Believe
  • Technology

• I attempt to create a form of seriocomic entertainment to either delight, enlighten, or disgust, whichever you'd like. In terms of making motion pictures, I write and direct and act. I guess you'd say I'm a filmmaker.

  

  Albert Brooks

• Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

  

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